The Language of Jury Trial
A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse| By: | C. Heffer |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781403942470 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230502888 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2005 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discourse', or the language used by legal professionals before lay juries. Careful analyses of genres such as witness examination and the judge's summing-up reveal a strategic tension between a desire to persuade the jury and the need to conform to legal constraints. The book also suggests ways of managing this tension linguistically to help, not hinder, the jury.